The day book. (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, April 20, 1917, LAST EDITION, Image 2

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land her home rule."Supporting Devlin's hint thatgreater American participation mightbe obtained if the government wouldsettle the Irish question, the tone ofthe British press for the past fewdays lias been unusually strong inurging action by Lloyd George.The greatest interest is manifestedin what Lloyd George may have tosay next week about the Irish settlement a statement being promisedfrom him by Chancellor the Exchequer Bonar Law.o oFOES OF DRAFT USE RpOSEVELTARMY IDEA TO BOOSTVOLUNTEER PLANWashington, April 20. Despite alladministration attempts to annihilate it, the Roosevelt division idea isholding its trench. It is the most formidable obstacle in the. path of conscription today.'While the word was passed outsemi-officially last night at the wardepartment that there will be noRoosevelt division, betting today favors the idea that "T. R." will getinto the trenches in France with avolunteer force weeks before thefirst American conscript division.getsunder shrapnel fire.It is admitted that the president isstrongly opposed to the Rooseveltdivision. Friends of the colonel insist that the Wilson objection ispredicated upon the political possibilities likely to ensue "when Teddycomes marching home." Administration backers ridicule this idea andsay that Roosevelt, who is on recordas favoring selective conscription, isdoing more to block conscription byhis talk of a volunteer division thanany other single factor. They admitthat Roosevelt could probably smashall speed records in raising a division.They say that the Roosevelt agitation is playing right into the hands ofcongressmen who prefer the volunteer system because of the chance itoffers to play politics by awardingcommissions, .WAR PROHIBITION MAY BE MADEIMMEDIATE JSSUE.Washington, April 20. Whether"war prohibition" is to be an emergency measure of present congresswill be determined shortly.Pres. Wilson and his cabinet todayplanned to take up recommendationsof Sec'y Houston for legislation covering entire problem of food, its conservation and distribution. Expectedthat Houston's suggestions will belaid before congress next week, andsimultaneously government's Intentions toward "war prohibition" maybe divulged. Prohibition question,officials now realize fully, is too closely connected with food problem to beconsidered alone.Question is now directly up toPres. Wilson and his cabinet. Congress, anxious to get away, doesn'twant to do any thing it doesn't haveto do, which might delay its departure. However, according to all signs,it's going to have to pass on prohibition question before it goes. Councilof National Defense has been seriously considering question as partof food conservation problem.Probable congress will be asked toauthorize government to take anyaction deemed necessary to handlingfood conservation and distributionduring crisis. This would includepower to shutroff supply of grain andother foodstuffs to distilleries andbreweries.GERMANY DENIES EFFORT TOMEET RUSSIAN SOCIALISTSLondon, April 20. A Germanwireless dispatch picked up here today declared that no German Socialists had been sent to Stockholm byChancellor Von Bethmann Hollweg Wand insisted there were no negotiations there between German andRussian Socialists on separate peace.The German denial comes afterconfirmation of just such a course ofusing the German Socialists in peaceintrigue with Russia from a score ormore sources.